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Thursday May 08, 2008

Configuring Windows Desktop SSO in Access Manager is simple and easy, the technology is also simple, basically user presents the Kerberos token to the Access Manager through the SPNEGO protocol to perform Kerberos based SSO to Access Manager. But often configuring WindowsDesktopSSO takes more time than expected. So, here are the few things that needs to be remembered or aware of to configure Windows Desktop SSO.

- Make sure Active Directory is setup properly, because sometimes i have seen Active Directory not letting users to bind unless the user is part of administrator group. So, first, make sure end users can authenticate to AD without any problems. Making sure AD configured properly is very important.